You can't make this stuff up. Well, you could, but it wouldn't be as good as reality. There is a lizard sex satellite floating in space and Russia no longer has it under control - The Washington Post
It looks like the lizard sex satellite was brought under control, but none of the geckos survived. The fruitflies did make it. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/w...ie-aboard-russian-spacecraft.html?ref=science